Description

Professor Van Alstyne
received a BA from Yale, and MS & PhD degrees from MIT. He is an
Associate Professor at Boston University and a Visiting Professor at
MIT.

His work concerns information
economics. In designing information goods, this research concerns
competitive strategy and network effects. In control over information,
it concerns who has access to what information, when, and at what
price. Work also balances open source principles against those that
generate profits and stimulate innovation.

Professor Van Alstyne was among the first to document productivity
effects of IT and communications at the individual desktop level. His
work has received an NSF Career Award, two best paper awards, and has
appeared in Science, Management Science, Harvard Business Review, and
the popular press.